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AWS Certified SysOps Administrator ??? Associate Guide

By : Marko Sluga
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AWS Certified SysOps Administrator ??? Associate Guide

By: Marko Sluga

Overview of this book

AWS certifications are becoming one of the must have certifications for any IT professional working on an AWS Cloud platform. This book will act as your one stop preparation guide to validate your technical expertise in deployment, management, and operations on the AWS platform. Along with exam specific content this book will also deep dive into real world scenarios and hands-on instructions. This book will revolve around concepts like teaching you to deploy, manage, and operate scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems on AWS. You will also learn to migrate an existing on-premises application to AWS. You get hands-on experience in selecting the appropriate AWS service based on compute, data, or security requirements. This book will also get you well versed with estimating AWS usage costs and identifying operational cost control mechanisms. By the end of this book, you will be all prepared to implement and manage resources efficiently on the AWS cloud along with confidently passing the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate exam.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)

EC2 overview

The AWS EC2 service provides the capability to use virtual machine instances in the AWS cloud. This service would fall squarely into the IaaS cloud category and is one of the basic services on which a lot of cloud PaaS and SaaS offerings are built. The EC2 service lets us run many versions of Windows and Linux based operating systems and gives us complete control of the operating system and its capabilities.

Virtualization types

There are two different virtualization types supported on EC2 that can deliver differing features and, in the past, differing performance to the visualized operating system and they are defined as the following:

  • Fully visualized or Hardware Virtual Machine (HVM)
  • VMs with some direct...